Moses said to the Gadites and the Reubenites, “Must your brothers go to war while you ¹  remain here?

but your servants will cross over, every man armed for war, to do battle in the Lord’s presence, just as my lord says.”

Then they turned and went up by the road to Bashan. And King Og of Bashan and all his forces ¹  marched out against them to do battle at Edrei.

Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had gone into the battle, “This is the ordinance of the law that the Lord commanded Moses:

Then Moses replied, ¹  “If you will do this thing, and if you will arm yourselves for battle before the Lord,

Moses said to them: “If the Gadites and the Reubenites cross the Jordan with you, each one equipped for battle in the Lord’s presence, and you conquer the land, ¹  then you must allot them the territory of Gilead as their possession.